View full sizeFile photoGlassboro running back Corey Clement, shown here in a game against Pennsville during the 2011 season, verbally committed to accept a scholarship and play football at the University of Pittsburgh Saturday while on a visit to the school. He set the South Jersey single-season rushing record with 2.510 yards as a junior.

Glassboro High School junior Corey Clement has been in demand with Division I college football programs like few New Jersey players, particularly since breaking the South Jersey single-season rushing record in the fall and leading the Bulldogs to the South Jersey Group I championship.

He may have already chosen which one of the nearly two dozen schools to already offer him a scholarship he’ll attend.

Glassboro head coach Mark Maccarone confirmed Saturday evening that Clement verbally committed to the University of Pittsburgh while on a recruiting visit this weekend after speaking to him by phone on his way back from the school.

The SBNation.com blog on Pitt sports, Cardiac Hill, was one of the first sites to report the commitment, noting that Scout.com and ESPN have Clement listed as a four-star recruit at running back. He ran for 2,510 yards in 2011, shattering the old South Jersey mark by more than 200 yards, and scored 36 touchdowns.

The Bulldogs finished the year 10-2 and downed Pennsville in the title game, 41-13, after dropping a 55-35 decision to the Eagles in the regular season. Clement rushed for 238 yards and four touchdowns in the championship.

According to Maccarone, Clement had received scholarship offers from 22 schools as of this weekend. They ranged from Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska in the Midwest to Boston College in the Northeast and Florida State in the Southeast, with Rutgers, Temple and Penn State among them as well.

The Panthers, who have produced talented running backs like Tony Dorsett and current Eagles backs LeSean McCoy and Dion Lewis, hired Paul Chryst in December, their fourth head coach in the last 13 months.

Clement is the latest major commitment from South Jersey, and verbaled to Pitt two months after Woodbury defensive back Anthony Averett did the same with Alabama while on a visit.